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Daniel Firger: Landmark Human Rights Trial Bowoto v. Chevron to Begin October 27thThe Niger Delta is not a good place to be an environmentalist. In fact, it's not a very good place to be a Nigerian. The Niger Delta is quite a nice place for oil companies though; since oil was found in 1956 multinationals like Chevron and Shell have extracted billions of barrels of crude -- c... |
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Nigerian troops kill two militants in restive in oil regionLAGOS, October 24, 2008 (AFP) - Nigerian troops killed two militants in a river clash with insurgents in the volatile oil-rich Niger Delta, an army spokesman said Friday. Get Breaking News, Most Popular Politics News, Election, and Video News - The Seferm Post ... |
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Militants say Nigerians freed, foreigners still heldThe main militant group in the oil-producing Niger Delta says it has released around 19 Nigerian oil workers kidnapped last month but was still holding two Britons and a Ukrainian. ... |
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Rewarding Non-Violence in the Niger DeltaAt a time of historically high oil prices, a model has emerged in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta that could allow more than a million barrels per day of production to come back on-stream without additional exploration or even new investment in production facilities – if only the Niger... |
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Nigerian oil militants say they are unaffected by mass arrestsNairobi/Abuja - A Nigerian militant group has said that none of its fighters were among hundreds of youths arrested in the oil-rich yet restive Niger Delta province. Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa said Tuesday that over 400 youths w... ... |
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Nigerian militant group fingers military in 'unprovoked attacks'Abuja - A Nigerian militant group that two days ago called off an oil war accused government troops Tuesday of an unprovoked attack on other militant groups in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) at... ... |
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